It seems like the primary problem is the Bluetooth. As for the emulator method, I've tried multiple emulators including VMWare, Virtual Box, Blue Stacks, etc.,etc., etc. Also, some may run into a problem with wifi, mine was a pain, but finally I got it up and working. It does seem that the Bluetooth will not work naitively, but with a dongle I finally managed to connect. I am currently running a Macbook Pro with a triple partition of Windows, Mac, and Android. This thread was helpful at getting me started: /forum/#!topic/android-x86/D85Jq02cLrEĪnyways, feel free to ask if you need help getting it sorted out. Might be easier to use Windows 7 as the main OS because 8.1 and 10 are slightly more difficult to setup dual booting but my tablet runs 8.1 better so that's what I went with and it works great.

I used gnu parted to wipe and split my drive in 3 partitions (windows boot on 1, windows drive on 2 and android on 3) then I used grub2win to setup the boot launcher. Harder but better performing way is to partition your drive and install android x86 side by side with windows. There's plenty of tutorials on how to run and install android x86 on vmware such as : You may need to reboot the vm after inserting the bluetooth dongle In order to run Vmware player 12, you will need a 64 bit OS. Second, you'll need to download the from the official website - it *HAS* to be 4.4 not 5.1 or 6.0 because OBDeleven is coded for native ARM cpu, and only Android x86 4.4 has the proper librairies to translate ARM cpu instructions to intel cpu.Įasy way, is to run it in VMware Player 12 (which is free and offer native USB device support. Anyway, it's a 15$ dongle which is still cheaper than buying a android device just for obdeleven. I had a Kinivo BTD-400 Bluetooth 4.0 usb dongle laying around and I used it both under vmware emulation and native OS install and it worked flawlessly. For bluetooth support to work, you may require a USB Bluetooth dongle as Android x86 might not support your laptop's onboard bluetooth device. Good news is that Android-x86 does work fine for this task, with very few limitations. You might be able to install the OBDeleven app and look around, but you'd never get it to connect. That's false, Bluestacks doesn't have the code to run native bluetooth.

I've read on some other forums that you could use Bluestacks as an android emulator. Since I'm sure I'm not the only one without an android device, I've played around and manage to find 2 ways to run OBDeleven with native bluetooth support on a intel x86/圆4 platform.

Bluestacks bluetooth 4.0